The Australian team to compete against New Zealand at the forthcoming Australian Championships has been announced by the senior and junior selection panels. The team can be found here.
Author: craigf
Squad coaches sought
Orienteering Australia is seeking volunteers to coach and manage two of its national training squads: the Australian Junior Development Squad and the National Development Squad. The coaches will also be given the option of managing or coaching either the JWOC or WOC team.
Further details can be found here.
OA Executive Officer and Administrative Support Officer – applications wanted
With the forthcoming retirement of John Harding after years of outstanding service, Orienteering Australia is seeking an Executive Officer to lead the sport into the coming years in Australia. We are also seeking an Administration Support Officer to support the Executive Officer in their work.
Applications are sought for suitable candidates to fill these positions. The Orienteering Australia office is currently located in Canberra but alternative locations will be considered for suitable candidate(s). Some knowledge of orienteering is essential for the Executive Officer, and desirable for the Administration Support Officer. Both positions are part-time. It is possible for both positions to be filled by the same person.
Detailed position descriptions and selection criteria for the two positions are on the OA website.
Applications should be sent to the Orienteering Australia office at orienteering@netspeed.com.au, or at PO Box 284, Mitchell ACT 2911. Applications should be accompanied by the details of two referees.
Applications close on Friday, 22 September, 2017.
For further information about the position, please contact:
John Harding (Executive Officer), orienteering@netspeed.com.au or 02 6162 1200.
Blair Trewin (President), oa_president@netspeed.com.au or 0413 849 309.
Three season winners in National Orienteering League
Congratulations to Simon Uppill (Senior Men), Aston Key (Junior Men), and Tara Melhuish (Junior Women) who all won at the National Orienteering League in Canberra on the weekend to achieve perfect season scores of eight wins and wrap up their titles.
Jo Allison still leads senior women from Natasha Key who closed the gap with two wins but the season winner will be decided at the Australian Championships.
In the teams category the ACT Cockatoos have a stranglehold on the Senior Mens category and a strong lead in Senior Women. In Junior Women the Tasmanian Foresters have just maintained their lead over the Qld Cyclones and in the Junior Men the ACT Cockatoos extended their lead.
Full updated results are here.
Lucy Mackie Wins Silver
Lucy Mackie has won Silver at the World Mountain Bike Championships Middle distance in Lithuania. Just 2 minutes behind the Czech star rider Veronika Kubinova.
Younger brother Fergus had a top 10 finish in his race finishing 9th. Glen Charlton debuted in a tough MTBO at 67th.
More on the ONSW site.
Also check out the event website: http://www.mtbo.lt/wmtboc-2017/ (Seniors are being GPS tracked live during their races and it makes for an interesting watch)
Support the team on their facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ausmtbo/
Silva Medal – 2017 – Progressive Scores after 3 Events
The Silva Medal competition for 2017 is based on points for participating and placing in the Australian Championships ( Sprint, Medium and Long), and the Australian 3-Days Championships (each day considered as a separate event), (Elite and A classes in M/W16 and above).
Points are scored for completing a course as follows: 1st – 4; 2nd – 3; 3rd – 2 and 1 for finishing, 1 point if there are less than 4 starters.
This year the Statistician will attempt to prepare the results of the Silva medal competition in time for the presentation ceremony at the Australian Long Championships or failing that at the Australian Relays the next morning.
As part of this effort, progressive scores will be published after the Australian 3-Days Championships (below) and after the Australian Sprint and Medium Championship events.
The Statistician normally publishes runners who have amassed 20 points, so for this progressive list runners who have 8 points are included. These runners can theoretically achieve 20 points, most with low probability.
In recent years there has usually been a number of runners who have scored maximum points (this year 24 points) in 6 events. So as it stands, only the following runners can obtain maximum points:
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Ann Ingwersen
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Aston Key
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Rebecca Minty
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Tara Melhuish.
Of course if all four runners fail to win their 3 events at the Australian Championships carnival, then the Silva Medal will be won by someone reasonably high in the list below.
Darryl Erbacher
Statistician
Round-up of Australian WOC and JWOC results
The World Orienteering Championships in Estonia and the Junior World Orienteering Championships in Finland are now completed. A round-up of the Australian results is below.
World Orienteering Championships
Sprint
Henry McNulty – 37th
Krystal Neumann – 39th
Natasha Key – mispunch in final
Belinda Lawford – 20th in qualifying
Simon Uppill – 21st in qualifying
Brodie Nankervis – 24th in qualifying
Sprint Relay
20th (Krystal Neumann, Henry McNulty, Simon Uppill, Natasha Key)
Long
Bryan Keely – 39th
Matthew Crane – 45th
Natasha Key – 39th
Krystal Neumann – 42nd
Middle
Simon Uppill – 34th
Matthew Crane – 42nd
Belinda Lawford – 52nd
Bridget Anderson – 54th
Relay
Men – 18th (Simon Uppill, Henry McNulty, Matthew Crane)
Women – 23rd (Krystal Neumann, Belinda Lawford, Natasha Key)
Junior World Orienteering Championships
Middle
Joseph Dickinson – 8th B final
Patrick Jaffe – 10th B final
Simeon Burrill – 28th B final
Toby Wilson – 2nd C final
Jarrah Day – 3rd C final
Aston Key – mispunch in qualifier
Zoe Dowling – 17th B final
Asha Steer – 22nd B final
Winnie Oakhill – 37th B final
Rachel Allen – 42nd B final
Caroline Pigerre – 43rd B final
Tara Melhuish – 16th C final
Sprint
Joseph Dickinson – 17th
Aston Key – 32nd
Simeon Burrill – 54th
Patrick Jaffe – 82nd
Toby Wilson – 88th
Jarrah Day – 128th
Tara Melhuish – 40th
Asha Steer – 66th
Zoe Dowling – 91st
Caroline Pigerre – 104th
Winnie Oakhill – 109th
Rachel Allen – 111th
Long
Aston Key – 29th
Joseph Dickinson – 57th
Jarrah Day – 83rd
Patrick Jaffe – 90th
Simeon Burrill – 102nd
Toby Wilson – 122nd
Zoe Dowling – 60th
Tara Melhuish – 89th
Rachel Allen – 90th
Asha Steer – 92nd
Winnie Oakhill – 94th
Caroline Pigerre – 99th
Relay
Men – Australia 1 25th (18th nation), Australia 2 40th
Women – Australia 1 26th (16th nation), Australia 2 33rd
Follow the Australian Team at the World Orienteering Championships
Most of the Australian Team for the World Orienteering Championships are now in Estonia for their final training camp. Competition starts on Friday week with the sprint qualification. You can follow the team in several ways:
- the Live Orienteering website
- the WOC event website
- the OA Facebook page and
- the Australian Orienteering Team blog which will be updated by the team during the training camp.
Support our team as they compete in Estonia. The team was announced last month here.
National League Standings
NOL point scores for the season have been updated following the Australian 3 Days in Wagga on the weekend. Simon Uppill and Jo Allison have cemented their leads in the senior categories. Some athletes missed the latest round as they headed overseas to prepare for WOC and JWOC. In the junior classes this helped Aston Key and Tara Melhuish to win all three races and pull away in the lead.
In the teams categories the Canberra Cockatoos lead both senior categories while absences have tightened the junior categories with the Cockatoos pulling level with the Tasmanian Foresters in junior men and a three way tie for the lead in junior women between the Foresters, Queensland Cyclones and NSW Stingers.
The next round is in Canberra toward the end of August before the season finishes with the Australian Championships Carnival.
OA Meetings, 10 & 11 June, Australian Three Days, Wagga Wagga
Sturt Public School Hall is booked for the meetings. Car parking is in the school car park on White Avenue.
Schedule:
Travel time back into Wagga from the events is about 15 mins on Saturday and 50 mins on Sunday.
Meeting Schedule:
Saturday 4.30-5.00: Events Committee
Saturday 5.00-6.15: Technical Committee
Sunday 3.30-4.30: Mapping Committee
Sunday 3:30-4:30: Schools Championship 2017 Managers and Coaches Meeting
Sunday 4.30-6.00: OA Special General Meeting
OA Special General meeting agenda
- Filling of vacant Board positions: Director (High Performance); 2 Directors at large
- OA proposal on finance for 2018: Budget proposal for OA Special General Meeting 190517
- Update on governance: 2017 SGM – governance update
- Uptake of Eventor as a national membership and participation database:
i. 2017 SGM – Eventor paper
ii. 2017 SGM – Eventor renewal - Implementation of the digital edition of the Australian Orienteer: 2017 SGM – Australian Orienteer paper
- Participation and Sporting Schools: outcome of the ASC’s Participation and Sporting Schools Workshop on 1 June
- Coaching development: update from Barbara Hill on 2 national projects:
a. Level 1 coaching manual
b. A set of Sporting Schools lessons for years 7 and 8 in high schools for which we need education department endorsement and endorsement by all states at the 2017 OA Conference
8. OA Annual Conference: 2 & 3 December, AIS, Canberra
Mapping Committee
Agenda: Mapping Committee meeting agenda June 2017
Technical Committee
Agenda: 2017 Tech Committee Agenda
Events Committee
Agenda: 2017 OA Events Committee Meeting Agenda